The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The region is experiencing a startup renaissance, with the formation of Midwest startups on the rise and funding growing at historic rates. This has been a phenomenal year for Midwest startups. CB Insights crunched some numbers and found that In the year through the Q3, Denver-based startups raised around $3.1

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2015

I’m running another competition for a startup to live for a year for free in my Kansas City FiberHouse. When I bought my house in Kansas City in 2013 , I announced my intentions clearly. As part of helping create the Kansas City startup community. “I’m not going to be living in it. Apply today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2014

Tech Startup Scene in Kansas City Is Red Hot! Long referred to as the “Silicon Prairie,” Kansas City is quietly making its mark as a great place for startups of all flavors. Ten startups launch into the Sprint/Techstars Mobile Health Accelerator: Ten mobile-health related startups from across the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. Two events this week in St. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2017

Trey Bowles from The Dallas Entrepreneurship Center (The DEC), Joshua Baer from Capital Factory, JR Reale from Station Houston, and Preston James from DivInc together in Kansas City, MO for the Kauffman Foundation Eship Summit. This was my first time visiting Kansas City. Kansas City seems to be the Austin of the mid-west.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

It’s based in Kansas City (Sprint’s headquarters) and is our fourth powered by Techstars accelerator, joining Nike , Kaplan , and R/GA. I’m an enormous fan of four things about the Sprint Accelerator – what we call “PBTS” (powered by Techstars), mobile health, Kansas City, and Sprint.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series. His unique experiences as an entrepreneur and CxO advisor provided him with a high-impact set of business development and leadership skills that also help startups and SMEs navigate their entrepreneurial challenges. Best of luck for more future successes.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2012

Just about every weekend someplace on the planet a peculiar series of meetups is happening called Startup Weekend. According to the master website, more than 5,000 startups have been created since the process began , and some 2,000 just in the last year alone. Startup Weekend - Full from Eighteen Eighty on Vimeo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. image credit: EpicV27.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2013

The chance to apply to win a slot to live in my Google Fiber enabled house in Kansas City are open for one more week – ending on March 25th at 17:00 CDT. I’m looking for entrepreneurs who are committed to living in Kansas City for a year who have a unique and novel approach to taking advantage of 1 gigibit Internet.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

For example, Kansas City Managed IT provides backup and restoration services to clients while considering each organization’s needs. You Need Managed IT Services appeared first on The Startup Magazine. There are different ways to back up data, and not all are equal. The post Have Remote Employees?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? More About Mike Evans: Hangry: A Startup Journey. Like this show?

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2013

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m doing this as an experiment around Startup Communities. I’m fascinated about what is going on in Kansas City around Google Fiber and rather than observe, I decided to participate. Also, thanks to Scott Case of Startup America for helping judge the competition.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I spent the day in Kansas City yesterday at the Kauffman Foundation for my first Startup Weekend board meeting. I was at the first Startup Weekend in Boulder in July 2007. I saw that in Boulder in July 2007 and I see that when I hear of other people that have participated in Startup Weekends around the world.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2016

I’ve recently joined the board of directors and enjoyed spending two days in Kansas City immersed in things with the Kauffman Fellows, a bunch of friends, and a number of LPs and GPs that came to the event. As part of it, I gave a talk and did Q&A with Lesa Mitchell (now the Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. Mathia shared some thoughts about his startup experience?—?and Tell us your favorite thing about being in Wichita, Kansas. What has the startup experience taught you about life? All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. Why worry about a startup community? Take the first step.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

I’ll pick a mythical company in Kansas City. “I live and work in Kansas City. “ Startup Advice' Here’s what I would do if I were you. For starters I’d try to raise my initial capital locally. Next I’d research every VC in the country and find people who grew up in or near KC.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Here’s my best attempt to shed some light on the most common misconceptions about building a company here in NYC: Misconception #1: There’s no money in NYC for startups… and the money that’s here isn’t smart or experienced money. Should they work on your “real time” web startup or write code that processes a million trades a minute?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2015

There is extensive content and examples around Startup Communities, included in the Paths to Entrepreneurship section. I made a few guest appearance, including in the long article about the Kansas City Startup Village. Entrepreneurship kansas city startup village kauffman foundation kauffman thoughtbook startup communities'

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2014

Yesterday, Kauffman Foundation released a study that provided empirical support for the Boulder Thesis that I came up with in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. 1 Million Cups Denver was also a recipient of one of the first Startup Colorado Community Fund grants.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I’ll be here again today for Venture Atlanta and then I’m on to Kansas City for Techstars Kansas City Demo Day. I haven’t been here in a while but it’s pretty awesome to see how the startup community has grown in the past five years. I was in Atlanta yesterday for Techstars Atlanta Demo Day.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2015

In an effort to buy real estate in burgeoning startup communities around the United States while more deeply engaging in the startup community, my partners and I have bought a house in the Cass Corridor neighborhood in Detroit. Since I stay in my guest bedroom at the Kansas City house when I’m there, I’m a fan of this.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. The next book I read was Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture. The last book I read was The Startup Visa: Key to Job Growth & Economic Prosperity in America.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. Louis and Kansas City in the “silicon prairie.” Great companies come from anywhere.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. Last month, the General Services Administration posted a guide to help startups navigate government contracting.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far.

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David Cohen

JUNE 18, 2022

It’s why the Kansas City Report showed that Black women left corporate in droves seeking this freedom. She has the authority to hire and place other people of color in leadership in ways that creates the same freedoms for them that she has found. These are the types of freedom that entrepreneurship can open up to the Black woman.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

Emporia, Kansas’ town leaders partnered with Emporia’s Main Street Program to develop a “code team” that unites code officials, firefighters, engineers and zoning staff to meet new and expanding business owners, explaining the particular requirements to set up shop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas. You need to find common elements to scale the business. Expanding neighborhood-by-neighborhood or city-by-city is not a simple cookie-cutter process. Cultures and values are different, pricing norms are unique, and customer needs have to be validated in each location.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2015

He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.” My parents knew one person in Dallas when they moved there, as they chose Dallas (over Kansas City, which was a near second) as a place they wanted to build their life.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2015

Can you, for example, take the SV’s operating system and drag and drop it into Boulder or Kansas City? The SV OS ought to work in a Bolder or Kansas City if we can ‘install it.''” I love the phrase “operating system” to describe things.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2012

Cafe Gratitude is opening in Kansas City. She shared stories about the ups and downs, exciting and frustrating moments and the joy of making tables from reclaimed wood. The following four items were the focus of her website. Would you like to be a part of making it happen? There are several ways to contribute!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In 2003, it was spun out of the Kauffman Foundation into a separate non-profit but, at the 20th reunion in Kansas City, the Kauffman Foundation made a new gift to the Kauffman Fellows Program to accelerate the midwestern venture capital ecosystem. In September, I joined the board of Kauffman Fellows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Two heads are always better than one in a startup. Finding a high-tech co-founder in the middle of Kansas may be a long search. Relocate to a more likely geography.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

He also spoke about bad experiments like Sam Brownback’s in Kansas where he has taken supply-side economics and social program defunding to extremes to what many believe will be grave consequences. And not just Uber – a growing cohort of startup executives who believe it would be better to avoid the scrutiny of public markets.

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